WEBVTT 00:00:00.342 --> 00:00:12.846 Let's just lift our Bibles up and wave them around, make Jesus glad, the devil mad, and let's say this together Say Heavenly Father, tonight I'm hungry for more of God. 00:00:12.846 --> 00:00:17.911 I'm hungry for the Word of God and for the Holy Ghost. 00:00:17.911 --> 00:00:23.129 It's the Word and the Spirit that give me victory in life. 00:00:23.129 --> 00:00:27.350 I'm an overcomer in Jesus' name. 00:00:27.350 --> 00:00:28.923 Amen. 00:00:29.539 --> 00:00:37.546 Two places tonight to get started Second Corinthians 517, very familiar scripture for most of us, and then Romans, chapter six. 00:00:37.546 --> 00:00:40.729 We'll start with Second Corinthians 517. 00:00:40.729 --> 00:00:45.780 And the Apostle Paul's writing to the Corinthian Church. 00:00:45.780 --> 00:00:50.409 He said Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. 00:00:50.409 --> 00:00:51.759 Old things are passed away. 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:54.067 Behold, all things have become new. 00:00:54.067 --> 00:00:56.564 And it's interesting. 00:00:56.564 --> 00:01:02.210 There he is as italicized, and in my margin it says let him be. 00:01:02.210 --> 00:01:13.587 So let's read it according to what the margin says a little bit more accurate Greek interpretation Therefore, if any man be in Christ, let him be a new creature. 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:21.548 You know I mean legally you are a new creature, but it's your choice to act like it to be. 00:01:21.548 --> 00:01:28.266 Let him be A new creature, that is, a new species of being that never before existed. 00:01:28.266 --> 00:01:32.551 There ought to be a difference between our old life and our new life. 00:01:32.551 --> 00:01:40.771 They been before saved, before we got saved and after, and all old things are passed away. 00:01:40.771 --> 00:01:42.745 Behold, all things are become new. 00:01:42.745 --> 00:01:59.725 And then in Romans, chapter six, verse four, therefore, we are buried with him by baptism into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father. 00:01:59.725 --> 00:02:06.250 Even so, we also should walk, should walk in newness of life. 00:02:07.281 --> 00:02:11.167 And so tonight I just wanted to share a message entitled Walking in the New. 00:02:11.167 --> 00:02:13.306 And of course it's our choice. 00:02:13.306 --> 00:02:15.185 We can really walk like the old. 00:02:15.185 --> 00:02:17.532 We can walk like we're stale. 00:02:17.532 --> 00:02:19.548 We can walk like yesterday's bread. 00:02:19.548 --> 00:02:26.783 We can walk like you know, something that's already lost its expiration date and ought to be thrown out. 00:02:26.783 --> 00:02:29.287 I thank God for my grandkids. 00:02:29.287 --> 00:02:34.449 They regularly come to my house and they go through our pantry and say, oh Graham, this is expired. 00:02:34.449 --> 00:02:36.687 Let me you know when they leave. 00:02:36.687 --> 00:02:42.429 We've got a garbage can full of expired food but keeps us on our toes. 00:02:42.429 --> 00:02:45.268 But no, we don't have an expiration date. 00:02:46.242 --> 00:02:51.949 We should know that God wants us to walk in newness or freshness of life. 00:02:51.949 --> 00:03:00.650 You know, when you look that Roman six, four, up in the linguistic key to the Greek New Testament, it brings the idea of strangeness and difference. 00:03:00.650 --> 00:03:02.306 We ought to be different than the world. 00:03:02.306 --> 00:03:02.721 We ought to. 00:03:02.721 --> 00:03:07.604 That's why we have about a split in America right now. 00:03:07.604 --> 00:03:16.348 In case you didn't know it, america, the nation, is under God's judgment because of disobedience, because we've drifted away from God as a nation. 00:03:16.348 --> 00:03:18.586 And that wasn't just last week. 00:03:18.586 --> 00:03:23.265 It's been going on for quite some time, and God is long suffering. 00:03:23.265 --> 00:03:24.626 He's plenteous in mercy. 00:03:24.626 --> 00:03:30.569 He's not willing that any should perish, and so he's been having mercy upon mercy on this nation. 00:03:30.569 --> 00:03:47.368 But right now we're coming into the consequences of a nation that has departed from God and has come out from under God and gotten out without God, and so there's a division in our nation. 00:03:47.699 --> 00:03:49.145 A lot of people praying for unity. 00:03:49.145 --> 00:03:50.705 Well, you've wasted your breath. 00:03:50.705 --> 00:03:53.548 There's not gonna be unity with the unbeliever. 00:03:53.548 --> 00:03:59.046 There's not gonna be unity with those that are dead, and that's what the difference is. 00:03:59.046 --> 00:04:18.689 It's people that are alive, those people that are true Christians, true born again Christians, true believers in Christ Jesus, those who are really in Christ, those who are living like it, those who are walking in the new, are gonna be different than those other folks. 00:04:18.689 --> 00:04:20.002 There's no getting in them. 00:04:20.002 --> 00:04:21.146 There's no unity. 00:04:21.146 --> 00:04:22.422 There's no way. 00:04:22.422 --> 00:04:25.069 You're wasting your time praying for that. 00:04:25.069 --> 00:04:28.488 But what we do need to pray for is a harvest. 00:04:28.488 --> 00:04:28.901 Amen. 00:04:28.901 --> 00:04:30.646 We need to get a harvest out of that group. 00:04:34.988 --> 00:04:39.749 So this life, this newness of life, that word life is the God kind of life. 00:04:39.749 --> 00:04:42.665 It's a zoe life, it's the life that God lives. 00:04:42.665 --> 00:04:45.608 That's the life that Jesus came to give us. 00:04:45.608 --> 00:04:50.764 Life, more abundantly, super abundant in quantity, superior in quality. 00:04:50.764 --> 00:04:51.987 That is our choice. 00:04:51.987 --> 00:04:55.408 We either do it or we don't walk in it. 00:04:55.408 --> 00:04:57.961 We either walk in that life or we don't See. 00:04:57.961 --> 00:04:58.964 It's up to us. 00:04:58.964 --> 00:05:04.766 And so we're surrounded by a world that's rushing to judgment. 00:05:04.766 --> 00:05:05.889 They're in judgment. 00:05:05.889 --> 00:05:10.470 Nations and people, groups are decaying. 00:05:10.470 --> 00:05:17.396 You know, let's look at 2 Corinthians, chapter two. 00:05:17.396 --> 00:05:20.762 I want you to see this because I'm talking about walking in the new. 00:05:20.802 --> 00:05:29.225 It's so important for the church to have this fragrance of new Newness of life. 00:05:29.225 --> 00:05:34.029 Second Corinthians, chapter two, verse 15. 00:05:34.029 --> 00:05:38.829 For we are unto God talking about the new creatures. 00:05:38.829 --> 00:05:53.524 We are unto God, a sweet saver, or a sweet fragrance of Christ, and them that are saved, and to them, or in them that perish, to the one where the fragrance of death unto death. 00:05:53.524 --> 00:05:54.086 Who is that? 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:56.771 Well, that's why people don't like us. 00:05:56.771 --> 00:06:01.540 I mean, you know they're, they're headed for death unless they get saved. 00:06:01.540 --> 00:06:04.324 And and we, we remind them that they're dead. 00:06:04.324 --> 00:06:04.716 They don't. 00:06:04.716 --> 00:06:07.901 They don't say that, they don't recognize that fact. 00:06:07.901 --> 00:06:09.781 But that's part of the reason why they don't like it. 00:06:09.781 --> 00:06:12.021 I mean, you ever smelled a dead animal? 00:06:12.021 --> 00:06:13.220 I mean, it's repulsive. 00:06:13.220 --> 00:06:19.404 There's this plant you know that they grow and make a big deal out of and it smells like death. 00:06:19.404 --> 00:06:22.584 You know, when it blooms it's flower, but it smells like death. 00:06:22.584 --> 00:06:23.355 I don't know by. 00:06:23.355 --> 00:06:28.483 Anybody would want to go see that flower, but anyway, that's what's happening. 00:06:28.483 --> 00:06:35.560 And really, for a Christian we smell is a wonderful fragrance of God, but for the unbeliever it's a fragrance of death. 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:41.240 To the other, the saver of life under life, and who's sufficient for these things? 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:53.038 So if we would just walk in newness of life, we would be a fragrance of life and a beacon of light in a dark world. 00:06:53.038 --> 00:06:55.637 These people need to have a witness and they need to be. 00:06:55.637 --> 00:07:04.901 You know, one of these days, if they don't repent, they'll have no excuse because they were exposed to the life of God, the Zoe life of God in us. 00:07:06.074 --> 00:07:16.564 You know I like to use a new car illustration and you know I've had a number of new cars in my life and you know there's something about a new car smell. 00:07:16.564 --> 00:07:18.461 That just, you know. 00:07:18.461 --> 00:07:21.341 Some people think it doesn't smell good, but to me it smells good. 00:07:21.341 --> 00:07:24.603 I like the new car smell. 00:07:24.603 --> 00:07:27.463 But you know, we know it fades over time. 00:07:27.463 --> 00:07:30.600 You know, of course, if you're a smoker it fades real quick. 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:39.903 I remember buying a used car one time and not only did it not have a new car smell but it had a smell of a smoker. 00:07:39.903 --> 00:07:45.620 I guess whoever owned it before I did was a heavy smoker so I never could make it smell very good. 00:07:47.177 --> 00:07:54.125 But I was reminded of my brother, his wife and he was a way back when their daughters were young. 00:07:54.125 --> 00:08:08.923 He had three little daughters and he bought a Pontiac station wagon, 1971 Pontiac station wagon and the thing was a mile long and it had a real unusual tailgate in the back. 00:08:08.923 --> 00:08:24.502 Instead of having one that opens like this or opens to the side, that car you just you know you pressed a button on the dash and the whole back door just recessed in the floorboard under the third seat. 00:08:24.502 --> 00:08:33.220 And his little girls a lot of times would ride in the third seat in the back of the station wagon, facing toward the rear. 00:08:33.220 --> 00:08:38.982 They liked seeing out the back of the car, had an unobstructed view out there. 00:08:38.982 --> 00:08:43.779 And so and it was brand new it's he was showing off the. 00:08:43.779 --> 00:08:46.581 You know how that tailgate would work. 00:08:46.581 --> 00:08:51.421 And then it had a key thing on the tailgate where they turn next to the tailgate. 00:08:51.421 --> 00:08:54.003 You turn that and it would do it from outside. 00:08:55.095 --> 00:09:03.743 And so they had had it but a few months and it still had the new car smell until one morning it just started smelling bad and they looked and looked to see what was wrong. 00:09:03.743 --> 00:09:06.419 It looked, it smelled terrible and they couldn't figure it out. 00:09:06.419 --> 00:09:10.919 They took the carpets out the floor, you know, the mats and everything. 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:12.682 And so finally they had to take it to the dealer. 00:09:12.682 --> 00:09:15.740 It was so bad and the dealer took up the floorboard. 00:09:15.740 --> 00:09:25.357 The dealer knew that this was a common problem and they had dropped the baloney sandwich down in that recessed floorboard and it had rotted. 00:09:25.357 --> 00:09:28.719 And then I mean it was bad, it was bad news. 00:09:28.719 --> 00:09:30.861 I don't think it ever recovered from that. 00:09:30.861 --> 00:09:34.904 But you know, never the same again. 00:09:37.654 --> 00:09:38.860 But we have a fragrance. 00:09:38.860 --> 00:09:41.260 We have a fragrance of God about us. 00:09:41.260 --> 00:09:49.201 If we're new creatures and we ought to be walking, and we'll let him walk, let him let him walk in newness of life. 00:09:49.201 --> 00:09:50.759 It's up to us. 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:53.423 Are we gonna walk like we used to walk? 00:09:53.423 --> 00:09:56.243 Are we gonna walk in newness of life? 00:09:57.355 --> 00:09:59.503 Smith Wigglesworth tells a testimony. 00:09:59.503 --> 00:10:11.538 He was on a train going to Ireland one time and he was walking down the aisle, you know, you had seats, a couple of seats, on either side of the middle aisle of a train, car, and a man. 00:10:11.538 --> 00:10:19.961 As he walked by, going to the front of the car, this man stood up and he said, sir, you convict me of sin. 00:10:19.961 --> 00:10:22.780 And he knelt down and wept. 00:10:22.780 --> 00:10:24.024 In the whole car. 00:10:24.024 --> 00:10:29.100 I mean, people were weeping and kneeling down and repenting of their sin. 00:10:29.100 --> 00:10:29.436 Why? 00:10:29.436 --> 00:10:39.061 Because, smith Wigglesworth, he carried such a fragrance that to them they realized they were dead and they needed to repent, they needed to get saved. 00:10:39.061 --> 00:10:45.664 And the whole car came to Jesus right there they all cried out for salvation. 00:10:45.664 --> 00:10:48.200 Oh, glory to God, thank God for the fragrance. 00:10:49.154 --> 00:10:51.740 Walking in the new I mean that's the churches. 00:10:51.740 --> 00:10:57.481 You know, here we're coming into the last of the year, here we are already Thanksgiving. 00:10:57.481 --> 00:11:00.764 It's gonna be Christmas next few weeks and then new year. 00:11:00.764 --> 00:11:02.003 Let's walk in the new year. 00:11:02.003 --> 00:11:04.142 Let's walk in the new right now. 00:11:04.142 --> 00:11:07.130 Let's look at this. 00:11:07.772 --> 00:11:21.307 Second Corinthians 5.17 again, and let's look at this, these verses, and says here therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. 00:11:21.307 --> 00:11:27.634 Old things are passed away and behold, all things are become new. 00:11:27.634 --> 00:11:42.793 So when you look at our passed away, that verb, when all are become new, that verb, when you look it up in the Greek, it means the tense of that verb is continuous action. 00:11:42.793 --> 00:11:54.530 In other words, that didn't just happen when we got saved way back, when it happens every moment of every day, if we're conscious of it. 00:11:54.530 --> 00:12:03.559 It says let him walk, let him be a new creature. 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:06.453 See, let's walk in that newness, that new creature. 00:12:06.453 --> 00:12:10.054 And that means being God inside minded. 00:12:10.054 --> 00:12:14.613 That means that we're always conscious of the Holy Spirit present on the inside. 00:12:14.613 --> 00:12:24.274 And so there's a very similar verse over in Titus let's turn over there. 00:12:24.274 --> 00:12:39.037 It's right after 1st and 2nd Timothy, titus, chapter three, talking about walking. 00:12:39.097 --> 00:12:51.884 In the new Verse, four, but after, the kindness and love of God, our savior toward man appeared not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to his mercy. 00:12:51.884 --> 00:13:05.731 He saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ, our savior. 00:13:05.731 --> 00:13:09.254 So in other words, we're not saved by our works. 00:13:09.254 --> 00:13:12.985 The fact that we have works is proof that we are saved. 00:13:12.985 --> 00:13:14.009 How were we saved? 00:13:14.009 --> 00:13:20.304 We were saved by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost. 00:13:20.304 --> 00:13:27.604 That renewing, you know that renewing means that it's not just one time. 00:13:27.604 --> 00:13:32.971 We're renewed in that salvation every day as we walk in it. 00:13:32.971 --> 00:13:34.349 Praise God. 00:13:34.349 --> 00:13:45.335 That washing of regeneration, you know we're washed, the washing of water by the Word, every day when we read our Bible, when we doers of the Word, not hearers only. 00:13:45.485 --> 00:13:55.394 All of that has to do with our fragrance and walking in the new and keeping our quote unquote, new car fragrance a little longer than new cars do. 00:13:55.394 --> 00:14:00.812 And you know Romans six four, which we already read. 00:14:00.812 --> 00:14:03.631 It says you know, walk in newness of life. 00:14:03.631 --> 00:14:11.751 The word walk there means to continue, not just walk, but it means to continue like a long life's journey. 00:14:11.751 --> 00:14:16.576 We continue in the newness of the life of God. 00:14:16.576 --> 00:14:18.731 Zoe is the God kind of life. 00:14:18.731 --> 00:14:26.634 And so we should be imposing our fragrance of life and countenance of light upon this world. 00:14:26.634 --> 00:14:29.394 It should be an imposition. 00:14:29.394 --> 00:14:31.351 We should not hold back. 00:14:31.351 --> 00:14:50.154 Everywhere we walk, everywhere we lift our voice, everywhere we're engaged in conversation, even when we're just not talking, people just looking at us we're imposing our fragrance of life and our countenance of light upon this world. 00:14:50.154 --> 00:14:58.787 So, walking to do just three things here tonight, simple message, but just a good reminder, aren't you glad? 00:14:58.787 --> 00:15:06.149 You're a new creature, a new creature, a new creation, a new species of being that never before existed. 00:15:06.149 --> 00:15:09.192 So walk in the new, continue in the new. 00:15:09.325 --> 00:15:26.754 Number one, spiritually, you know, it takes the Word and the Spirit working in our lives and Colossians 3, 16, wonderful verse, and let's get it in front of us here Ephesians, philippians, colossians 3. 00:15:26.754 --> 00:15:32.029 Let the Word of Christ no, there's that word led again. 00:15:32.029 --> 00:15:34.859 See, let him walk in newness of life. 00:15:34.859 --> 00:15:39.875 Let you let say God doesn't do it, god doesn't impose it. 00:15:39.875 --> 00:15:41.335 You have a choice. 00:15:41.335 --> 00:15:46.215 Let the Word of Christ dwell in you barely, no richly. 00:15:46.215 --> 00:16:00.298 Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual Psalms, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 00:16:00.298 --> 00:16:06.129 And so we just have a song in our heart, we just, we just walk in joy. 00:16:06.129 --> 00:16:17.217 We walk, and, and you know, when people speak wrongly, we can sweetly give them the Word, the true Word of God, especially believers, I mean. 00:16:17.217 --> 00:16:20.663 You know, when believers say the wrong thing, it's good to you know. 00:16:20.663 --> 00:16:26.409 That's why it's good to have a church and be around people that believe God like you do, and that way you can keep each other accountable. 00:16:26.409 --> 00:16:29.610 That's what this Bible is talking about here, this Word. 00:16:29.610 --> 00:16:37.509 So it says let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly. 00:16:38.313 --> 00:16:40.990 And then I'm thinking about the spirit part of Ephesians 518. 00:16:40.990 --> 00:16:52.942 Be not drunk with wine whereas in excess, but be filled with the spirit, be being filled, be continually and habitually filled with the spirit. 00:16:52.942 --> 00:17:01.750 So that means that you can't just receive the baptism one time and and then, 50 years later, you've never been filled again. 00:17:01.750 --> 00:17:05.354 No, we need to be filled and filled again, and filled again, and filled again. 00:17:05.354 --> 00:17:08.589 It takes, it takes an act of our own will. 00:17:08.589 --> 00:17:10.015 We have to yield to him. 00:17:10.015 --> 00:17:17.439 Be continually and habitually filled with the spirit, and that means you're continually and habitually filled with the Word. 00:17:17.439 --> 00:17:21.678 See, when you have the Word and the spirit, you're always hungry for both. 00:17:21.678 --> 00:17:24.490 You're going to have that newness of life. 00:17:24.490 --> 00:17:25.753 You're going to have that fragrance. 00:17:28.089 --> 00:17:29.496 First, corinthians 14, 4,. 00:17:29.496 --> 00:17:33.440 He that prays in an unknown tongue edifies himself. 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:35.150 Well, who is the himself? 00:17:35.150 --> 00:17:36.013 It's your spirit. 00:17:36.013 --> 00:17:40.845 You build yourself up, jude, the Jude 20,. 00:17:40.845 --> 00:17:42.799 Build yourself up on your most holy faith. 00:17:42.799 --> 00:17:43.890 Pray it in the Holy Ghost. 00:17:43.890 --> 00:17:45.375 We were talking about that recently. 00:17:45.375 --> 00:18:04.516 So pray much in the spirit, pray much in the Holy Ghost, pray in your prayer language every day and you will be built up, your spirit will be active and your spirit will be take the ascendancy over your carnal mind and over your carnal thoughts. 00:18:04.516 --> 00:18:15.115 Your mind and your body will become subject to your spirit, the more that you filled your spirit full of the Word and the spirit. 00:18:15.115 --> 00:18:16.852 All right. 00:18:16.852 --> 00:18:30.724 And secondly, walk in the new mentally, and that's pretty easy once you've done it spiritually, because spiritually it sort of includes the Word of God. 00:18:31.710 --> 00:18:41.961 So Romans 12, 2, it says, be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 00:18:41.961 --> 00:18:47.059 See, there's that word renewing or refreshing of your mind. 00:18:47.059 --> 00:18:54.778 And so when you read your Bible every day, you're renewing your mind, you're renewing your thought life. 00:18:54.778 --> 00:19:03.836 So as you feed your spirit, you're also reprogramming your mind to think the thoughts of God. 00:19:03.836 --> 00:19:07.038 You're no longer conformed to this world's way of thinking. 00:19:07.038 --> 00:19:10.255 I mean, you just walk outside, you can see the world's way of thinking. 00:19:10.295 --> 00:19:13.275 Right now People are all they're once. 00:19:13.275 --> 00:19:14.940 They're afraid again. 00:19:14.940 --> 00:19:22.920 See, there's a uprising, places like New Zealand and Australia and Germany and Austria and Italy. 00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:34.757 I mean they are going, they're coming unglued because the COVID vaccines are not, doesn't seem to be affecting, and that people are getting it all over again and more and more people are going to the hospital. 00:19:34.757 --> 00:19:36.415 They don't have any room in the hospitals. 00:19:38.509 --> 00:19:40.036 Thank God, we're looking to God. 00:19:40.036 --> 00:19:43.480 Thank God we're not looking to hospitals and doctors. 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:53.950 We're not against them, but thank God, let's have our thinking conform to God's word and not conform to this world. 00:19:53.950 --> 00:20:02.881 You know, the world always looks back, it's always thinking death, it's always victim-minded. 00:20:02.881 --> 00:20:09.297 But no, a spirit-filled Christian is always looking to a bright future. 00:20:09.297 --> 00:20:12.317 You think life, that's what you think about. 00:20:12.317 --> 00:20:13.653 You think about victory. 00:20:13.653 --> 00:20:15.579 You think you have loving thoughts. 00:20:15.579 --> 00:20:21.113 You think about how can I love this person, praise God. 00:20:21.113 --> 00:20:23.895 It's a totally different way of thinking. 00:20:24.890 --> 00:20:38.731 Walking in the new mentally, see, walking in the new spiritually Spiritually comes first, because spiritually is gonna impact the mentally, and then finally, walking in the newness of life physically Right. 00:20:38.731 --> 00:20:46.798 Physically, because Romans 811 says the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead quickens your mortal flesh. 00:20:46.798 --> 00:20:49.518 The word mortal there means death doomed. 00:20:49.518 --> 00:21:06.280 Yeah, I know, if Jesus tears, we'll all die one day, but until then, the Spirit of God is inside of you, not only to guide you, but he makes your physical body stronger and there's life in that body. 00:21:06.280 --> 00:21:10.198 Praise God, he's in there to energize your body. 00:21:10.198 --> 00:21:16.615 He's in there to energize every part of your body when you're God inside minded. 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:20.833 Psalm 103, one of my favorite Psalms. 00:21:20.833 --> 00:21:22.739 I pray that almost every day. 00:21:22.739 --> 00:21:27.480 Bless the Lord on my soul and forget not all his benefits. 00:21:27.480 --> 00:21:36.719 And it says who satisfies my mouth with good things so that my youth is renewed like the eagles. 00:21:36.719 --> 00:21:44.234 My youth is renewed, renewed See, there's that word again, and that's talking about physically. 00:21:44.234 --> 00:21:46.500 Psalm 103, 5. 00:21:47.685 --> 00:21:54.762 Right after I'd had open heart surgery and I got home to recover, I was praying that Psalm and the Lord spoke to me. 00:21:54.762 --> 00:21:56.310 He said I've reset your clock. 00:21:56.310 --> 00:22:03.150 You know, I mean I was a certain age at that time and praise God. 00:22:03.150 --> 00:22:05.616 Now you know he's reset my clock. 00:22:05.616 --> 00:22:10.391 So you know, the Bible is filled with people who are seemingly ageless. 00:22:10.391 --> 00:22:13.775 Just think about Abraham and Sarah. 00:22:13.775 --> 00:22:21.904 I mean here he was a hundred and she was 90, they had a child and then later on she died and he kept on living and he had babies all the way. 00:22:21.904 --> 00:22:23.852 I think he died at 150 something. 00:22:25.587 --> 00:22:26.209 And Moses? 00:22:26.209 --> 00:22:28.296 You know, moses was 120 when he died. 00:22:28.296 --> 00:22:29.871 But he didn't die of old age. 00:22:29.871 --> 00:22:33.295 He died because he couldn't go into the Promised Land. 00:22:33.295 --> 00:22:34.288 That was a punishment. 00:22:34.288 --> 00:22:37.173 He had a curse because of his disobedience. 00:22:37.173 --> 00:22:42.869 He got angry and he struck the rock the second time Instead of speaking to the rock. 00:22:42.869 --> 00:22:46.069 So God says, okay, cause you've done that, you're not going into the Promised Land. 00:22:46.069 --> 00:22:50.872 So when it came time for the children of Israel to go into the Promised Land, he couldn't go in there. 00:22:50.872 --> 00:22:53.573 And so he died, but not of old age. 00:22:53.573 --> 00:22:58.933 He died because he had to die right then he probably would have lived another 30, 40, 50 years. 00:22:58.933 --> 00:23:03.710 I mean, the Bible is filled with people who are seemingly ageless. 00:23:03.710 --> 00:23:12.113 Think about Zacharias and Elizabeth, you know, here they were both old and well stricken and years had given up on having a baby. 00:23:12.113 --> 00:23:14.151 And here she winds up having a baby. 00:23:14.151 --> 00:23:15.193 It's John the Baptist. 00:23:17.808 --> 00:23:22.685 And so speak life to your body, you know. 00:23:22.685 --> 00:23:23.750 Speak life to it. 00:23:23.750 --> 00:23:25.592 I mean, you don't have to die at 70. 00:23:25.592 --> 00:23:26.910 You don't even have to die at 80. 00:23:26.910 --> 00:23:28.391 I hear people say that all the time. 00:23:28.391 --> 00:23:38.175 Well, so you know, by Psalm 90 says if you've lived to 70 and if, by reason of strength to forescore, you know, we fly away. 00:23:38.175 --> 00:23:41.369 Well, that was talking about the children of Israel when they were under judgment. 00:23:41.369 --> 00:23:42.348 That was punishment. 00:23:42.348 --> 00:23:45.613 No, we live a lot longer if we just will. 00:23:45.613 --> 00:23:48.892 I think we can live as long as we're satisfied. 00:23:48.892 --> 00:23:51.354 Amen, that's what the Bible teaches. 00:23:52.384 --> 00:23:54.874 And so let's not sell God short. 00:23:54.874 --> 00:23:57.714 Let's speak life to our bodies. 00:23:57.714 --> 00:24:05.537 Quit talking sickness, quit talking death, quit talking poverty and lack. 00:24:05.537 --> 00:24:07.607 Speak health. 00:24:07.607 --> 00:24:11.790 Speak to your body when it starts acting up. 00:24:11.790 --> 00:24:17.632 Don't live with it, make it, resist it, speak to it and tell it no, you're not gonna have pain. 00:24:17.632 --> 00:24:22.909 No, you're not gonna act that way, you're gonna. 00:24:22.909 --> 00:24:26.069 The Holy Spirit is quickening you, making you alive. 00:24:26.069 --> 00:24:26.907 Praise God. 00:24:26.907 --> 00:24:34.071 Proverbs 12, 18 says the tongue of the wise is held, and so I've always made it a practice. 00:24:34.071 --> 00:24:39.256 I got these principles to speak to my body. 00:24:40.164 --> 00:24:42.673 You know God's priority there in 3 John 2. 00:24:42.673 --> 00:24:51.801 He said beloved, I wish, or I pray above all things that thou miss, prosper and be in health as their soul Prosperous. 00:24:51.801 --> 00:24:56.575 How many of you believe that John was inspired by the Holy Spirit when he wrote that? 00:24:56.575 --> 00:25:00.047 It wasn't just him, his will, and that's why it's in the Bible. 00:25:00.047 --> 00:25:07.734 So it's God's idea for us to what prosper and be in health as we continue on life's journey. 00:25:07.734 --> 00:25:18.343 One mark, one version Says as we continue on life's journey, we should prosper and we should Continue in health. 00:25:18.343 --> 00:25:20.587 That's God's, that's God's plan. 00:25:20.587 --> 00:25:32.971 His plan is not for us to just gradually get weaker and weaker and blinder and blinder and defer and defer and, you know, dumber and dumber, until we just, you know blobs. 00:25:32.971 --> 00:25:35.047 No, that's not God's plan. 00:25:35.047 --> 00:25:38.119 God's plan is for us to be vital and full of life. 00:25:38.119 --> 00:25:41.029 So speak life, be life-minded. 00:25:42.082 --> 00:25:44.769 I'm reminded of an uncle Jack I had. 00:25:44.769 --> 00:25:48.268 It was my aunt, my mother's oldest sister. 00:25:48.268 --> 00:25:51.843 You know it's funny about, about my life. 00:25:51.843 --> 00:25:55.452 You know, I'm the youngest in my, in my mother and dad. 00:25:55.452 --> 00:26:03.299 My mother and my dad were the youngest in their family, both of them, and I'm the youngest in that family. 00:26:03.299 --> 00:26:04.903 So then, what? 00:26:04.903 --> 00:26:10.776 What it amounts to is that every cousin I have, every first cousin that I have, is older than I am. 00:26:10.776 --> 00:26:15.211 I'm the youngest, I'm the youngest and all of the family my mother had. 00:26:15.211 --> 00:26:18.750 See, she had a brother and three sisters. 00:26:18.750 --> 00:26:27.940 All of their kids were older than I was by a lot, and, and my dad had three older brothers and all their kids were older than I was by a lot, except one. 00:26:27.940 --> 00:26:33.532 I had one cousin that was a year younger and that was the only cousin it was younger. 00:26:33.532 --> 00:26:35.017 All the other cousins were older. 00:26:35.017 --> 00:26:45.853 And so we would go and see my, my mother's oldest sister, who was quite a bit older than she was and her she was married to. 00:26:45.913 --> 00:26:49.648 Jack Called him we call, they called him daddy Jack. 00:26:49.648 --> 00:26:57.178 I didn't call him that, I called him uncle Jack because he was my uncle and he was a big, tall, thin guy, white hair. 00:26:57.178 --> 00:27:04.244 You know, and I just remember back back in the 50s, you know we couldn't play. 00:27:04.244 --> 00:27:07.660 You know, my second cousins would come over and they were younger than I was. 00:27:07.660 --> 00:27:13.170 Their mother was my first cousin and she's got kids by my age. 00:27:13.230 --> 00:27:15.153 Say that that's the gap in my family. 00:27:15.153 --> 00:27:16.864 There's a point to all this. 00:27:16.864 --> 00:27:22.200 But so we were told, no, she played because daddy Jack has got to have his rest. 00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:26.491 He's got a heart condition and he could die just like that. 00:27:26.491 --> 00:27:28.416 He needs his nap in the afternoon. 00:27:28.500 --> 00:27:34.007 So y'all, y'all be quiet, be very quiet, don't make any noise. 00:27:34.007 --> 00:27:35.211 Well, you know, we're kids. 00:27:35.211 --> 00:27:40.145 I mean, I'm six years old, I'm gonna make noise, I'm, I can't walk through the house. 00:27:40.145 --> 00:27:42.932 I run through the house, clop, clop, clop, old hardwood floors. 00:27:42.932 --> 00:27:51.842 So we were always getting in trouble for making too much noise, had to be so quiet for daddy Jack, and so he Got me one day. 00:27:51.842 --> 00:27:53.305 So, hey, you want to go to town? 00:27:53.305 --> 00:27:57.173 This is refurio, texas, little old town, summertime hot. 00:27:57.173 --> 00:27:59.065 You want to go to town with me? 00:27:59.065 --> 00:28:01.473 I got go to the ice store and get some ice. 00:28:01.473 --> 00:28:05.372 We had this ice house, you know, and they had an ice box. 00:28:05.372 --> 00:28:09.507 Now at our house we had a refrigerator but they had an ice bowl, timey ice box. 00:28:09.507 --> 00:28:13.779 You had to put a 25-pound block of ice to keep things cold. 00:28:13.779 --> 00:28:15.665 So we went to town. 00:28:15.685 --> 00:28:17.692 I thought it was a sign and a wonder. 00:28:17.692 --> 00:28:18.375 And he drove. 00:28:18.375 --> 00:28:27.124 He had a hat on, he had a long sleeve shirt on and a coat like a sport coat, and Gloves and it's. 00:28:27.124 --> 00:28:30.673 And there's no air conditioning in the cars, a hundred degrees outside. 00:28:30.673 --> 00:28:33.573 Looking at him like, why are you so bundled up? 00:28:33.573 --> 00:28:36.285 I Just assumed because it was sick. 00:28:36.285 --> 00:28:38.070 Yeah, I didn't know, I'm just a kid. 00:28:39.021 --> 00:28:41.732 And we drive up from the ice house and he gets out. 00:28:41.732 --> 00:28:43.319 You know, he's gonna have to help me with this ice. 00:28:43.319 --> 00:28:44.885 I don't know if I can pick it up. 00:28:44.885 --> 00:28:48.119 And I, you know, I thought, yeah, okay, I can do that. 00:28:48.119 --> 00:28:57.185 And so he put the nickel in the slot and here comes this ice sliding down the shoot comes outside Through this rubber door. 00:28:57.185 --> 00:28:59.829 It's got a pair of ice tongs. 00:28:59.829 --> 00:29:09.134 He showed me how to put it in there and then I picked that, pick the ice block up and 25 pounds, pretty heavy for me, but I was able to manage to get it over to the trunk. 00:29:09.134 --> 00:29:11.423 Put it in the trunk, daddy Jack. 00:29:11.423 --> 00:29:16.231 See, daddy Jack is so fragile he's gonna die at any moment. 00:29:16.231 --> 00:29:17.614 That's what I grew up thinking. 00:29:17.614 --> 00:29:30.065 But then, years later, when I got to be a 10 or 12 years old and we moved for a furio, my aunt died, his wife died and he was married before she was even Hardly in the grave. 00:29:30.065 --> 00:29:33.799 He got married to some younger woman and he lived another 20 years. 00:29:33.799 --> 00:29:36.796 He died when he was 90 something bored for a week. 00:29:36.856 --> 00:29:41.448 Daddy Jack, I'm telling my family stories now. 00:29:41.448 --> 00:29:43.772 If my cousins hear this they'll be mad at me. 00:29:43.772 --> 00:29:46.366 I'm sorry, but I just think it's kind of funny. 00:29:46.366 --> 00:29:49.378 You know, sometimes we just think somebody's gonna kill over. 00:29:49.378 --> 00:29:51.367 Look, we've got the life of God in us. 00:29:51.367 --> 00:29:53.719 I don't know what he had, but I know what I have. 00:29:53.719 --> 00:29:59.673 I have the life of God keeping me, and God is read he's reset my clock, he'll reset yours. 00:29:59.673 --> 00:30:01.182 We don't have to. 00:30:01.182 --> 00:30:04.348 You know, we don't have to put up with sickness and disease. 00:30:04.348 --> 00:30:12.385 So let's determine the rest of this year and into 2022, let's walk in the new. 00:30:12.385 --> 00:30:15.834 Come on, lift your hands and receive the Word of God Hallelujah. 00:30:15.834 --> 00:30:18.299 Thank you, lord, for the newness of life. 00:30:18.299 --> 00:30:22.607 Hallelujah, God is so good. 00:30:22.607 --> 00:30:25.011 He gives us newness of life. 00:30:25.011 --> 00:30:26.714 Amen.